Is there a principle that bank charges/fines have to be proportional to the 'crime' committed? My daughter got charged £25 for each of a series of small payments made when she was already overdrawn....
I own a car but I don't drive it. My husband drives the car in question and is fully comprehensively insured on it and on another vehicle. His friend wants to borrow my car as his is having some...
Does anyone else find it sickening that the BBC are allowed to be so biased with news coverage in that they 'protect' the Government with favourable news items and keep others quiet ? (such as the...
Recent news has shown headteachers and union heads say that children should not be deprived of their schooling by taking holidays in school time. On Wednesday I see the NUT are taking strike action....
Watching Duncan Smith on Sky News, He said that Osborne will go down in History as one of the Greatest Chancellors ever. Does anyone on AB agree with Mr Smith
I know the classic car exemption was introduced approx 1994/5/6 as a rolling 25 years and later frozen by Labour in 1997 but I cannont find any definitive article saying so. I think Ken Clarke was the...
Is a passenger in a car likely to blow up a petrol station whilst talking on a mobile phone? I think not. The pump hadn't started & the call was started before the arrival at the station. Many TV...
Hi. I have a customer who is refusing to pay us. We did a job for them in October 2013, invoiced them by email (as they requested), unfortunatly we emailed the invoice to the wrong department...
One of the first policies of the Coalition Government was to triple University fees (despite Clegg promising not to). We were told it would save us money at a time of austerity. Students were to take...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2585838/Lawyers-dock-UK-troops-cleared-killing-Iraqi-civilians-Claims-dropped-year-long-inquiry-thats-cost-22m.html This is great news, although it as cost the...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26658742 The online advert said the 1p cut in beer duty and the halving of bingo duty to 10% would help "hardworking people do more of the things they enjoy"....
It might be my impression, and please out me right iffy think I'm talking cobblers (quite likely) - but are the 'new right' the 21st century version of the 'old Left'? Is it true that the old Left...
Interesting article on things not to say to a young unemployed person: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/17/telling-young-person-get-job-education-employment In particular, I thought...
I am not great at haggling. My wife needs to replace her car and I have seen a Ford Focus at Bristol St motors (a large national chain). The car is an "oldish" car compared with most of the cars on...
